Posted on 07/05/2017 7:24:47 PM PDT by Ken H
Penn State climate scientist, Michael ‘hockey stick’ Mann commits contempt of court in the ‘climate science trial of the century.’ Prominent alarmist shockingly defies judge and refuses to surrender data for open court examination. Only possible outcome: Mann’s humiliation, defeat and likely criminal investigation in the U.S.
The defendant in the libel trial, the 79-year-old Canadian climatologist, Dr Tim Ball (above, right) is expected to instruct his British Columbia attorneys to trigger mandatory punitive court sanctions, including a ruling that Mann did act with criminal intent when using public funds to commit climate data fraud. Mann’s imminent defeat is set to send shock waves worldwide within the climate science community as the outcome will be both a legal and scientific vindication of U.S. President Donald Trump’s claims that climate scare stories are a “hoax.”
As can be seen from the graphs below; Mann’s cherry-picked version of science makes the Medieval Warm Period (MWP) disappear and shows a pronounced upward ‘tick’ in the late 20th century (the blade of his ‘hockey stick’). But below that, Ball’s graph, using more reliable and widely available public data, shows a much warmer MWP, with temperatures hotter than today, and showing current temperatures well within natural variation.
Michael Mann, who chose to file what many consider to be a cynical SLAPP (Strategic Lawsuit Against Public Participation) libel suit in the British Columbia Supreme Court, Vancouver six long years ago, has astonished legal experts by refusing to comply with the court direction to hand over all his disputed graph’s data. Mann’s iconic hockey stick has been relied upon by the UN’s IPCC and western governments as crucial evidence for the science of ‘man-made global warming.’ As first reported in Principia Scientific International (February 1, 2017), the defendant in the case, Canadian climatologist Dr. Tim Ball, had won “concessions” against Mann, but at the time the details were kept confidential, pending Mann’s response.
The negative and unresponsive actions of Dr Mann and his lawyer, Roger McConchie, are expected to infuriate the judge and be the signal for the collapse of Mann’s multi-million dollar libel suit against Dr Ball. It will be music to the ears of so-called ‘climate deniers’ like President Donald Trump and his EPA Chief, Scott Pruitt.
Why do you think Beaver Stadium is in Happy Valley?
Thank you so much for hanging in there Dr. Ball, we have no idea how difficult this has been for you and your family.
As wholes deserve all they get, and then some.
So, let me get this straight. Mann files a libel suit because Ball claims Mann used faked data, but then Mann refuses to submit to the court the data in question. You couldn’t make this up.
Michael Mann is a “denier” of data to the court.
A lot of the HOAX has been funded by government grants, the foundation of which is looking more and more fraudulent. I’m looking for justice via fed false claims act which allows for treble damages. Take the green out of the left and leave them an honest red color.
This is like the DNC saying Trump-Russia but refusing to release potentially self incriminating hacked server data...
best news!
The story may be unduly optimistic. I can’t see the Canadian courts hanging the “Global Warming” star out to dry.
I don’t know how the Canadians work, but in a US court there would likely be protective orders and limited access to proprietary data. The “Open court examination” raises some red flags as to what is really going on here.
The dam is bursting. I am so happy to have lived long enough to see this.
Wonder what will happen now with the defamation lawsuit against Mark Steyn and Steyn’s counter lawsuit?
This could get interesting again ... after dragging on for 6 years.
Now THAT is going to leave a mark and is something that the President SHOULD tweet about.
LOL - you and I both!!!
Did Mann collect his data and do his research with taxpayer money? If so, Trump should direct government to release the data immediately and invite the scientific community to peer review it especially since so much is based on this and Hansen. Trump can now open this all up. My only question is why he hasn’t used his position to do so across all of the agencies he now heads.
Why should Trump get credit for this? Steyn and others have been fighting this fight for years, at great personal expense, back when Trump was still pro-climate change. They deserve the credit.
Defendants always lose....but, could this be an exception to this rule?
You have a legal opinion to support your position?
It’s outside my area, but if Bayh–Dole applies, the University would have priority over the federal government, and under Roche https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/10pdf/09-1159.pdf , the individual would would have priority over the University. But that’s patent law, and I don’t know how it interacts with non-patented intellectual property.
Always been the case with Mann. Dude, this is science. You have to have the raw data. You can’t edit it, cherry-pick it, “clean” it, “smooth” it, you have to have the observations. If you don’t, it isn’t science.
I was thinking the same thing.
Being a progressive means never having to backup anything you say with facts - until now......
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